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    What is puzzling is that Zhang Guogan's arrival in Heilongjiang was indeed a smooth sailing: Zhai Wenxuan resigned early to make way for him, and Zhang Zuolin lived up to his preamble and delegated all the administrative powers of officials stationed in Heilongjiang to him. He truly let go, which made Zhang Guogan worried.  People were amazed.

    Zhang Guogan was as strong as ever and quickly made many big moves in Heilongjiang Province, which matched Zhang Hanqing's measures to revitalize the province through industry.  After taking power, Zhang Guogan refused to give in to the Japanese encroachment in the Black Province, which made the Japanese look at him.  However, it was discovered that he had this kind of character, and even the powerful Duan Qirui could do nothing about him. Zhang Zuolin completely let it go, Bao Guiqing was just an empty airs, and the Japanese did not have the corresponding strength to back them up in the Black Province, so they had no choice but to be angry and dare not speak out.  .

    In the Republic of China, there was no one else who could do this for the Japanese except this person.  Zhang Zuolin used him to fight the Japanese, which can be said to be the right medicine.  Invisibly, he consolidated the situation in the Heilongjiang Province very well. Later, the Heilongjiang Province became the most secure rear area of ??the Feng Faction. His contribution cannot be erased.

    Zhang Zuolin's group is full of civil and military personnel, and its business is booming, but the center is in trouble.

    Originally, after Feng Guozhang became president, he expressed respect for the responsible cabinet system and would not interfere with Duan's administrative and decision-making decisions. Duan's attitude towards Feng was much better than that towards Li Shi.  But they are two powerful factions. Feng Guozhang is quite scheming, and unlike Li Yuanhong, he has a status in the Beiyang Military Department, has military power, and has the support of the Third Governor of the Yangtze River, so of course he is not willing to be the same as Li Yuanhong.  President; Duan Qirui is headstrong and will never give up any power, so the dispute between the two becomes equally intense.

    The first dispute was over military power, which has always been a focus of dispute between presidents and prime ministers.  Not long after Feng Guozhang took office, he wanted to restore the "Generalissimo Army and Navy Command Office", but Duan of course refused to agree.  Duan established the "Continental Office" in the State Council to replace the "Command Office" of Yuan Shikai's era.  Feng wanted to be involved in national affairs and was unwilling to be a president in name only, like a clay statue. Duan finally gave in on this aspect and sent an official to report political affairs to the president every day.

    However, the dispute between the president and the prime minister is not superficial, or can be eased by making a small concession on one matter. Therefore, the power struggle has made the rift between these two Beiyang giants wider and wider.  The secret fight between Feng and Duan was the beginning of the struggle between the Beiyang clique and the Anhui clique.

    Duan Qirui usually calls Feng Guozhang "fourth brother", but when it comes to power, the two brothers fight even more fiercely!  Duan and former President Li Yuanhong were at war with each other, but they were fighting with real swords and guns!  Duan's tyranny and domineering forced Feng Guozhang to despair, so he took a brigade of elite soldiers and 22 boxes of bullets, and headed south along the Jinpu Line in the name of inspecting the southern battlefield, heading straight for his hometown in Nanjing.  Duan Que sent his confidant Duan Zhigui to intercept the President halfway in Anhui. It was impossible for President Feng not to miss the soldiers with guns surrounding the train, so he could only look at Nanjing just around the corner. He was filled with hatred and did not dare to say a word, so he responded obediently.  After arriving in Beijing, he completely delegated power to Duan Qirui.  But privately, he always remembers to get back a win, and this breakthrough lies in Feng Yuxiang's hands.

    The main war faction headed by the Anhui clique waved the banner of the Southern Expedition for the second time. This time it was not just waving the flag and shouting, but just taking real actions.  After deciding to march south, the northern warlords withheld taxes, expanded their troops, and seized territory.  At this time, newspapers across the country were filled with reports of the main battle, and the sounds of killings were endless.  The Beiyang faction is quite vigorous in its renaissance, and some people actually advocate that Duan Qirui be appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Campaign.

    Just as the sound of killings in the north was shaking the world, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River suddenly erupted with voices for peace: Feng Yuxiang issued a power call at Wuxue to declare independence, denounced the Civil War as the most unconscious and unreasonable war.

    Feng Yuxiang was previously ordered to "aid Fujian" and stop advancing until Pukou, in order to promote peace between the north and the south.  The basis of the peace talks is that Yuezhou will return to Hunan and Jingxiang will return to Hubei. Each will defend its territory and both will not invade. This is not unattainable.  Finally, he said that soldiers should obey the president, and the president has always been a peacemaker, so peace means obeying the president.  He concluded in two ways: "either to stop the army, or to kill Yuxiang to thank the world."

    It is definitely impossible to kill.  The 16th Mixed Brigade in Feng Yuxiang's hands has more than 10,000 people, which is equivalent to the size of an army division.  If you want to touch him, you have to see if the guy in his hand will agree.

    Feng Yuxiang¡¯s move was of course an arrangement by the peace faction. It is said that this was planned by Lu Jianzhang behind the scenes to disrupt the main battle party¡¯s attack on Hunan.  Because Wuxue is located between Hubei and Jiangxi, his actions will have an impact on the first and second route armies of the main combat faction.  Moreover, Lu Jianzhang also planned to raid Anhui and drive away the provincial governor Ni Sichong.  Ni is not popular in Anhui. If Ni is driven away, Lu can replace him. In this way, Anhui, as a traditional force of the Anhui clique, will join the camp of the three direct governors of the Yangtze River, and the southern section of Jinpu will be under the control of the Zhuhe faction.  , the power is great, AnhuiHow else to fight?

    The reason why Feng Yuxiang made such a statement at this time was because of what his uncle Lu Jianzhang said.  Lu Jianzhang was Feng Guozhang's loyal confidant.

    Duan Qirui was extremely shocked by Feng Yuxiang's sudden peace proposal, so he focused all his anger on Feng Guozhang and determined to stage a military coup to drive Feng from power.  However, since all the Anhui clique's troops were transferred to the south, they did not have enough troops to support his plan. Therefore, he sent his trusted advisor Xu Shuzheng to the northeast to find Zhang Zuolin under the pretext of "contacting national defense" in an attempt to persuade Zhang Zuolin to dispatch him.  His Feng army entered the pass to implement the plan to drive out Feng.

    The Anhui clique called for war, while the Zhizhi clique called for peace, so both sides made a fuss about this controversy.  The Anhui clique said: "Before you can make war, you can make peace, and you should use war to force peace."  Zhiqi said: "Peace is used to show sincerity and peace is a means. If the goal cannot be achieved, fighting can only be motivating."  In fact, the peace faction is dealing with Duan, and the war faction is dealing with Feng.  It's not really about peace or war, but a new "fight between the government and the court."

    The Beiyang faction had already split when Yuan became emperor, but the split at that time was just against Yuan, or it could be said that Yuan's people rebelled against their relatives.  It was only after Zhang Xun's restoration that the Beiyang faction's split became apparent. After Zhang Xun's restoration and Duan Qirui's oath to crusade, it was not a real split. When the Zhili clique and the Anhui clique each went to extremes, it was the official split of the Beiyang faction.

    For Feng Guozhang, he had been dreaming of the Xinhua Palace since Yuan Shikai's death. However, when he got his wish, he gradually realized that the magnificent palace and the title of president were not the ideal paradise on earth.  The pain he suffered was exactly what Li had suffered in the past.  Like Li, he is the sealing machine of Duan's cabinet.

    When he approved the resignation of Xu Shuzheng, Duan Qirui¡¯s think tank, as deputy minister of the Ministry of War on November 20, Xu stirred up trouble in Tianjin and pulled Cao Kun out of the immediate fourth governorship to deny it.  In addition, he also roped in Zhang Zuolin to convene a meeting of the Governor's Army in Tianjin, preparing to form a so-called alliance of Qin, Jin, Anhui, and Feng as a reprint of the Governor's Army.

    The Japanese minister came to see Feng Guozhang and also issued a threatening tone. He said: "The situation in China is facing great difficulties. The cabinet cannot be changed. If it is changed, there will be big chaos."  When Duan Qirui was in trouble internally and externally, his Japanese supporters couldn't wait to jump to the front desk.

    With the "Fuyuan Battle" in full swing, Zhang Zuolin now focused on how to deal with Meng Enyuan, the last stumbling block on the road to dominance in the Northeast.

    Gao Jiren's "Fengqi Bureau" under Zhang Hanqing lived up to expectations and collected sufficient evidence to prove that Meng Enyuan also committed the same fatal mistake as Feng Delin. He actually participated in supporting Zhang Xun's restoration activities!  Top-secret information flowed like a tide to Zhang Hanqing's Fengjun headquarters. In an instant, Zhang Hanqing grabbed the impeccable Meng Enyuan's pigtails.

    Therefore, Zhang Zuolin secretly sent his confidants to Jilin and launched the "Expulsion Movement" on the grounds that Meng Enyuan's "restoration and rebellion" was well-founded, he abused provincial treasury and relied on nepotism.  In the name of the people, they called the Beijing government to demand that Meng Enyuan be held accountable and strongly demanded that he be replaced.  The power of the people at this time was far from the "monstrous" mentioned in the telegram, but it was true that everyone at home and abroad was shouting about "restoration" actions.

    Meng was from Zhili, and his in-laws, Lu Jianzhang, were also from Zhili. Most of Meng's troops were soldiers from Zhili.  As a leader of the Anhui clique and Prime Minister Duan Qirui, who is incompatible with the Zhili clique, he has long wanted to eliminate Meng Enyuan.  At this time, it is the right time to comply with public opinion and let one of our own replace Meng Enyuan.  So he quickly issued an order to dismiss Meng Enyuan, and at the same time appointed his own general Chahar Dutong Tian Zhongyu to take over his post.  Tanaka Yu is from Funing, Hebei Province. He was stationed in Changchun before and has excellent relations with the Japanese.

    "After driving away Meng Enyuan, Tian Zhongyu came. This result was something Zhang Zuolin did not expect.  He saw clearly that if Tanaka Yu, who was backed by Duan Qirui and had close ties with the Japanese, was appointed as the governor of Jilin, it would be equivalent to planting a nail in the Northeast for the Anhui clique, and it would undoubtedly become his key to unifying the three northeastern provinces.  The biggest obstacle.

    As the saying goes, "Which is the lesser of two evils", Zhang Zuolin decided that instead of welcoming Tian Zhongyu, it would be better to keep Meng Enyuan temporarily.

    Meng Enyuan had heard some rumors a long time ago and sent his secretary Dai Yizhen to Feng Guozhang in Beijing to find out the truth. Feng said there was no such thing and advised him not to listen to the rumors.  But soon the rumors turned out to be true. After receiving the order, he was very angry and sent a telegram to ask the reasons for the cabinet transfer. He was given a three-day deadline to reply, otherwise Jilin would declare its independence.

    They also sent Pei Qixun, commander of the Jilin Huncheng Brigade, as the commander-in-chief of the Independence Army. At the same time, they selected petition representatives to go to Beijing one after another and actively worked to avenge Meng Enyuan.  His party members, such as Gao Shijie, also insisted on resisting Tian Zhongyu's appointment, suppressed the anti-Manglin forces in Jilin by force, and called the Beijing government to withdraw Yi Governor's appointment.

    The new governor Tian Zhongyu was excited to take office, but when he saw the chaotic political situation in Jilin, he suddenly lost interest.  He felt that he was in a good position as the governor of Chahar and there was no need to get involved in the chaotic political whirlpool, so he politely declined the appointment to Duan Qirui.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)He was in a good position as the governor of Chahar, and there was no need to get involved in the chaotic political whirlpool, so he politely declined the appointment to Duan Qirui.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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